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Medical Textbooks Overwhelmingly Use Pictures of Young White Men
Vice ^ | May 9, 2019 | Rose Eveleth

Posted on 05/09/2019 5:57:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Before it was a television show, Grey's Anatomy was a textbook. Published in 1858, Gray's Anatomy (spelled with an "a") quickly became the gold standard in medical illustration, featuring detailed diagrams of everything from the tiny bones in the hand to the internal structure of the eye.

Gray's Anatomy is still in print today, in its 41st edition, but if you open the book up and flip through the pages you might notice something. Or really, the dearth of something: women. And it turns out it's not just Gray's Anatomy that has this problem—almost all medical textbooks are heavily biased towards depicting male bodies.

In 2014, Rhiannon Parker, a researcher at the University of Wollogong in Australia, set out to quantify just how bad that bias actually is. By analyzing more than 6,000 images from 17 anatomy textbooks published between 2008 and 2013, Parker and her colleagues found that only 36 percent of the anatomical images with an identifiable sex were female.

Even more discouraging is the results weren't all that different from a study done in 1994, in which 32 percent of images represented female bodies. "I expected there to be a much bigger improvement on representation," Parker told me.

Not all books were equally biased. General Anatomy, 2nd ed., had the highest proportion of male bodies at 5:1, while Human Anatomy and Physiology, 9th ed. was the only textbook to have the same proportion of male and female bodies. Gray's Anatomy for Students—a condensed version of Gray's Anatomy—has nearly three times more men as women

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: antiwhiteracism; fakeoutrage; fauxoutrage; firstworldproblems; graysanatomy; medicaltextbooks; phonyoutrage; racism
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To: EdnaMode

Blacks make up 13% of the population yet they appear in 90% of commercials, and usually as the smartest and/or coolest person in the ad.


41 posted on 05/09/2019 7:25:57 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: EdnaMode
I know I'm a teen, but really, medical textbooks discriminate against other races and women?? Okay, when talking about childbirth, should the man be giving birth (which is hard to do if he is an XY male...).

Coming soon, Gray's Anatomy - Liberal and Transgender Edition. No picture of White men will be allowed...😀

42 posted on 05/09/2019 7:26:24 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: ConservaTeen

Trannies and LIBS get lots of time in psychiatric and psychological texts.


43 posted on 05/09/2019 7:37:58 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: EdnaMode
Politically correct medical textbook alternative for snowflakes:

44 posted on 05/09/2019 7:41:18 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: ConservaTeen

The real issue here is that between the time when Grey’s Anatomy was first published and 1930, women’s life expectancy was greatly increased. By 1930 women’s deaths in childbirth had become very rare. This was mostly due to advances made by the White male-dominated medical establishment. But don’t say “thank you”. Instead just beef and whine about racism and sexism.


45 posted on 05/09/2019 7:44:33 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Paladin2

There were pictures in my anatomy class of a very hot white chick in my textbook. It really motivated me.


46 posted on 05/09/2019 7:47:24 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Especially from ChiCongo...


47 posted on 05/09/2019 7:49:19 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: Midwesterner53
I think she needs a date...Maybe if she had a male in her life she might be happier and she wouldn't be upset at STUPID THINGS...

But I bet she is upset at me for saying she needs a date...

48 posted on 05/09/2019 7:51:45 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: dfwgator
Post #36...What aren't they upset about?? If their favorite baseball team won a game 10 to 1, they would complain that, A) The pitcher let a run in ..or

2) Their favorite player either went 0 for 5 or cause an error...

Stupid unhappy libs...

49 posted on 05/09/2019 7:58:07 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (WFLA's Jack Harris: Brooklyn is missing their village idiot. Right you are, Jack.)
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To: EdnaMode

There would be no modern medicine as we know it if not for white men, and young white men.


50 posted on 05/09/2019 8:06:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s easier to see the detail using a young, white person.


51 posted on 05/09/2019 8:21:05 PM PDT by myerson
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To: ConservaTeen
On the surface, she doesn't look like she'd have problems getting a date:

...so the problems are under the surface.

52 posted on 05/09/2019 8:22:32 PM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: EdnaMode

I sure hate it when you get your x ray and radiography textbooks, and all of the bones and tissue images are from white men!

(Because of course you can tell from those bacterial closeups and skeletons)


53 posted on 05/09/2019 8:22:57 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: EdnaMode

The only group that may not be homogeneous is white.

Gray’s Anatomy was not produced in China.


54 posted on 05/09/2019 10:52:21 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: EdnaMode

That’s because only real men lead countries [women just flood them with ‘refugees’] and therefore medicine had to target them.


55 posted on 05/09/2019 11:09:42 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: EdnaMode

gee... could it be that modern medicine was pioneered by WHITE MEN ?

could there be some reason the whole continent of africa doesn’t have much of a medical program?


56 posted on 05/10/2019 2:05:41 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Husker24

And women pics would only be needed for female-specific conditions...it’s a medical book - not a feel-good olio of diversity (except for diseases and anatomical issues)


57 posted on 05/10/2019 5:13:12 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Kenny Bania

that drawing discriminates against Americans with disabilities and congenitally attached twins.


58 posted on 05/10/2019 5:26:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

My little brother, on a form that asked for ‘color,’ put ‘pink and beige.’ I thought that was so cute.


59 posted on 05/10/2019 10:44:27 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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